Class VI. DENTALIUM. 355 



GENUS XXXII. DENTALIUM. 



Animal, a Terebella. 



Shell slender, tubiform, mostly pervious. 



Lin. Syst. 1263. No. 786. Faun. Suec. No. 2201. I- entalis. 



Gm. Lin. 3736. Lin. Tr. viii. 237- common. 



List. Conch, tab. 547- Jig. 2. Mont. Test. Br. 494. 



D. with a slender shell, a little bending ; per- 

 vious ; length near an inch and a half. 



Inhabits most of our seas. Tab. xciii. Jig, 5, 



Gm. Lin. 3736. D. striatum. Mont. Test. Br. 2. DENTALIS. 



Lin. Tr. viii. 237. 4g5. id. Sup. 156. 



* D. with a white tubular shell, having a few 

 faint annulets at the larger end, and twenty 

 stria, rather bent, interrupted ; length half an 

 inch j inhabits the sea on the western coast. 



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